Brolin entered rehab in 2013 and honored his five-year anniversary of being sober with an emotional Instagram post detailing a horrific night he was drunk. “I was drinking a lot, way too much,” he told The Hollywood Reporter about a year after his stint at rehab. “It’s never one specific thing. I mean, you’re in your 20s, single, going through life in Hollywood, you know? Everything is thrown at you.” “I don’t think I have to, to be quite honest,” he said. “I quit drinking like six years ago, so I don’t have the liquid courage. I just have dry courage.”
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- While he describes his personality as naturally addictive, Radcliffe credits his close friends with helping him to get help and develop new, healthier coping strategies.
- McGraw also admitted to Lowe that he feels he “would’ve died already” or ruined his career with his drinking habits if he and Hill hadn’t tied the knot in 1996.
According to Gibson, he had been sober for more than a decade as of 2016. Lohan had several stints in a treatment center over the years. Today, she does not describe herself as being in recovery, but as of 2019, her life appeared to have stabilized. I barely think about it [alcohol]’ he explained to The Telegraph, after a long route to getting sober after filming the Harry Potter franchise.
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“But I don’t regret even the ugliest things that have happened to me. I feel incredibly accomplished. And I feel like I have a second chance.” “The time between 1998 and 2005 was especially bad,” the supermodel told Vogue about her cocaine addiction. “During that time, I avoided looking in the mirror, because I didn’t like the person who was looking back at me. To be honest, there were times I thought I wouldn’t survive.” After emerging onto the scene as a promising young actor, Downey Jr. struggled with addiction and quickly found himself gathering several arrests. With the support of loved ones, the Iron Man star was able to turn his life around and eventually become the world’s highest-paid male actor.
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But because of the prevalence of substance abuse in our society, only around 10% of those struggling seek treatment. The AIDS crisis inspired the singer to address his addictions. Sir Elton John says when his friend, the young AIDS activist Ryan White, died in 1990, he felt a lot of regret that he had spent the previous decade absorbed in alcohol and cocaine misuse. He sought treatment in 1990 and established the Elton John AIDS Foundation 2 years later.
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- “I stopped consuming any mind-altering substances when I was 19 years old.
- Bradley Cooper is known for his comedic film roles.
- And stopping has shown me a world of happiness that I didn’t think was possible.” This is a lesson that we can all learn from Radcliffe.
- Brad Pitt has no regrets about discussing his sobriety journey — despite some backlash from his Alcoholics Anonymous group.
The actor sobered up in 2003 by using a 12-step program. He told Esquire it was his “first port of call.” In his memoir, the “Friends” star revealed that his recovery journey included 6,000 AA meetings, at least celebrities who are alcoholics 15 stints in rehab, and dozens of detoxes. In a 2022 interview with the New York Times, the actor estimated that he spent $9 million trying to get sober. At the time of the interview, he was sober for 18 months.
“When I’m at a stage in my life where there is enough space for me to have a hangover, I’ll start drinking again, but that won’t be until my kid is out of the house,” she continued. Below are 10 celebrities who struggled with alcoholism and found recovery. Gibson has struggled with alcoholism for many years. His problem became very public when he was arrested for drunk driving in 2006. LaBeouf has struggled with alcoholism for many years. He’s been arrested several times due to incidents linked to alcohol use.
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- While we may be more accustomed to celebrities dying to heroin and other drugs, many have died due to an addiction to alcohol.
- The actor says he got addicted to painkillers when he was prescribed them after a personal watercraft accident.
- Identifying the excuses behind his drinking habits and resolving past trauma helped him to get sober before the start of a 2008 tour – one he later described as the hardest of his life.